Taming Black Holes: Parallel Session Creation Have you ever tried to log on to a terminal server and, after entering your credentials, been forced to stare at a grey screen for a lengthy period of time […] Read more
ClearType Bandwidth Revisited – Testing 32 Bit Color Depth In an earlier post I wrote about how bandwidth requirements of the RDP protocol are affected by enabling font smoothing (ClearType over RDP version 6) on Windows Server 2008. Jan, […] Read more
Programmatically Determining Terminal Server Mode on Windows Server 2008 A question on the terminal services newsgroup brought this topic to my attention: how can be determined programmatically if a Windows Server 2008 system is a terminal server and whether […] Read more
Bandwidth Requirements for ClearType over RDP In an earlier post I wrote about a great technology that finally makes it into terminal services with Windows Server 2008: ClearType or Font Smoothing, as it is sometimes called. […] Read more
Windows Server 2008 (R2) Component Posters [Updated 2009-12-11 for Server 2008 R2] Microsoft has published two visually very appealing posters which depict in great detail important components of its upcoming OS Server 2008. The poster on […] Read more
Windows Server 2008: Architectural Changes Relevant to Terminal Services #2 This post covers a technology developed by Microsoft Research in the late 90s that finally made it into terminal services: ClearType. ClearType As is sometimes the case with technology, it […] Read more
Windows Server 2008: Architectural Changes Relevant to Terminal Services #1 I will start this blog with a small series of posts that describe changes to the architecture of Windows Server 2008 that are relevant to Terminal Services. Read more
